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Saturday, September 9, 2017

2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Fishtown – A Hipster Noir’ by Tribe of Fools at the Louis Bluver Theatre at the Drake by Deb Miller

A spot-on parody of the retro-style of film noir in a hilarious send-up of our ever-growing post-modern obsession with social media and technology, Fishtown – A Hipster Noir reaffirms Trib…

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2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘As the Matzo Ball Turns – The Musical’ by Heart of a Lion Productions at the Independence Seaport Mus by Deb Miller

A ten-year account of the failed pursuit of his Hollywood dreams, Gene Duffy’s As the Matzo Ball Turns – The Musical is an ambitious stage adaptation of the eponymous 2012 autobiographic…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46AM
Friday, September 8, 2017

2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Pericles’ by Die-Cast at The Rotunda by Deb Miller

Brainchild of Director Brenna Geffers and Designer Thom Weaver, the newly-formed Die-Cast makes its public premiere in the 2017 Fringe Festival with an arresting re-envisioning of the rarely…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:20PM
Thursday, September 7, 2017

2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Game Show Show’ by Found Theater Company at the MAAS Building by Deb Miller

Seen through the lens of the popular phenomenon of the TV game show, Found Theater Company’s latest ensemble-devised Fringe offering, Game Show Show, considers the ethical dilemma of how f…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08PM
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano’ by The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium at the Bethany Mission by Deb Miller

The banality of bourgeois life, the futile desperation to find meaning in mundane existence, the trivial chatter and vapid clichés used to fill the emptiness of everyday being, and the fail…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02PM
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Doing Double Duty in the Philadelphia Fringe: An Interview with Jenna Kuerzi, Eric Singel, and Hannah Van Sciver by Deb Miller

Three of the most enthusiastic veterans of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival are each doing not one, but two shows this year. Jenna Kuerzi finishes out the final installment of On the Rocks�…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12AM
Friday, August 11, 2017

‘No Ransom To Be Paid’ at Pangea: An Update on ‘GRINDR: The Opera’ and More with Erik Ransom by Deb Miller

Featured this summer in producer Ed Miller’s No Ransom To Be Paid four-part series at Pangea, the presented works of writer/composer/musician/actor Erik Ransom include songs from More Than…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:38PM
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Review: ‘A Never-Ending Line’ at The Players Theatre by Deb Miller

Conceived by Composer and Director Jaime Lozano as a loving tribute to the women in his life and his matriarchal upbringing, A Never-Ending Line, produced by Maribel Escobosa, Martha Orendai…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Review: ‘Lili Marlene’ at St. Luke’s Theatre by Deb Miller

Taking its name from the romantic wartime ballad famously recorded by Marlene Dietrich in 1945, and which, in its earlier German and English versions, had become uniquely popular with both N…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:52PM
Monday, August 7, 2017

Review: ‘Gruff!’ at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre by Deb Miller

Part of the first Summer Family Theater Festival at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Gruff!, a co-presentation by Vital Theatre Company and Doppelskope, is everything that great children’s theat…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:53AM
Sunday, August 6, 2017

Review: ‘A Real Boy’ at 59E59 Theaters by Deb Miller

In the world premiere of A Real Boy, presented by Ivy Theatre Company in association with Athena Theatre at 59E59, playwright Stephen Kaplan significantly reimagines Italian writer Carlo Col…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PM
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Review: ‘Georama’ at the New York Musical Festival by Deb Miller

The rise and fall of the largely forgotten 19th-century American artist John Banvard is the subject of Georama, an irresistible bio-musical by West Hyler (book) and Matt Schazt (book, music,…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32AM
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Review: ‘Troilus and Cressida’ at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival by Deb Miller

Since 2011, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival has presented one play a year in its “Extreme Shakespeare” series. The concept is to try to recreate in part the process believed to hav…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:39PM
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Review: ‘Wicked’ at the Academy of Music by Deb Miller

From its origins in L. Frank Baum’s1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to its adaptation in MGM’s blockbuster 1939 film The Wizard of Oz to its annual TV broadcast on CBS beginning in …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PM
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Review: ‘Moon over Buffalo’ at People’s Light by Deb Miller

Now in production at People’s Light, Ken Ludwig’s Moon over Buffalo, directed by Pete Pryor, contains all the expected elements of a farce: there’s mistaken identity; insult humor; imp…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08PM

Deb Miller’s Top Picks for the ‘2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival’ by Deb Miller

From antiquity to the present, tragedy and drama to absurdism and comedy, masterpieces by classic playwrights to experimental ensemble-devised works by local artists, the 2017 Philadelphia F…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AM
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Review: ‘New York – The Melting Pot’ at Soulpepper on 42nd Street by Deb Miller

The first in Soulpepper Theatre Company’s three-part musical celebration of the history of diversity in New York – The Melting Pot pays tribute to Lower Manhattan, from Battery Park …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:40PM
Friday, July 21, 2017

Review: ‘Night Tide’ at the New York Musical Festival by Deb Miller

Ancient sea lore meets Sixties beach party in Night Tide, a new musical parody by Taylor Tash (book and lyrics) and Nathania Wibowo (music), based on Curtis Harrington’s 1961 B-movie thril…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PM
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

An Interview with Josh Hitchens and Ryan Walter: Going Dark in the New Jersey Fringe with ‘The Confession of Jeffrey Dahmer’ by Deb Miller

Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer committed the shocking murders of seventeen men, involving necrophilia, dismemberment, cannibalism, and the preservation of the victims’ body parts. A…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:17PM
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Review: ‘Alligator Pie’ at Soulpepper on 42nd Street by Deb Miller

Adapted from the verses of beloved children’s book author and poet Dennis Lee – known to generations of fans as “Canada’s Father Goose” – Soulpepper Theatre Company’s ensem…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13PM

Review: ‘Cage’ at Soulpepper on 42nd Street by Deb Miller

The avant-garde work and Zen convictions of 20th-century American composer John Cage are the inspiration for Soulpepper Theatre Company’s ensemble-devised piece Cage, performed in this mo…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59PM
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Review: ‘Matthew McConaughey Vs The Devil’ at the New York Musical Festival by Deb Miller

Deserving recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actor, or modern-day Faust who sold his soul to capture Hollywood’s biggest honor? Emilie Landmann (book), Carrie Morgan (book and lyrics),…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:59PM
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Review: ‘The Summer Club: 3rd Anniversary Special’ at Venice Island Performing Arts Center by Deb Miller

Back at Manayunk’s Venice Island Performing Arts Center, The Summer Club celebrated its third anniversary on a very hot night with an even hotter performance. With yesterday’s total brea…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05PM
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Review: ‘Of Human Bondage’ at Soulpepper on 42nd Street by Deb Miller

The first-ever stage adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, written by Vern Thiessen and directed by Albert Schultz for Canada’s Soulpepper Theatre Company, is also the re…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58PM
Monday, June 26, 2017

Review: ‘The Crusade of Connor Stephens’ at the Jerry Orbach Theater by Deb Miller

Gun violence, socio-religious intolerance, same-sex marriage, and gay adoption are some of the current hot-button issues that tear apart a family, polarize a community, and create a media fr…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PM
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Review: ‘The Imbible: Day Drinking’ at New World Stages by Deb Miller

Feeling overwhelmed by the demands of work, everyday chores, and the incessant pings of your digital devices? Then don’t just find the time, but make the time, for getting together, catchi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PM
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Review: ‘Death Comes for the War Poets’ at The Sheen Center by Deb Miller

This year marks the centenary of the beginning of America’s involvement in World War I in 1917, and The Sheen Center has recognized it with the stellar world premiere of Death Comes for th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:31AM
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Review: ‘d4rkly your retrorockets fl4re’ at the Flamboyán Theater by Deb Miller

The world-premiere full-stage production of d4rkly your retrorockets fl4re, written by Steven Mark Tenney and co-directed with his sister Susan Tenney, is presented by The Constellation Proj…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:48PM
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Review: ‘The Summer Club’ at Venice Island Performing Arts Center by Deb Miller

In his banter with the audience during last night’s musical homage to Swing, Big Bands, and ‘The Rat Pack’ at Manayunk’s Venice Island Performing Arts Center, Jeff Coon, Executive Di…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:01PM
Monday, June 19, 2017

Review: ‘Evita’ at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival by Deb Miller

The life of Eva Perón is the stuff legends, and rock operas, are made of: a rags-to-riches story of a poor illegitimate child from provincial Argentina, whose ambitious determination, seduc…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57AM
Friday, June 16, 2017

Review: ‘An Enemy of the People’ at Wheelhouse Theater Company by Deb Miller

Economic self-interest, an ‘inconvenient truth,’ a ruthless politician, a whistleblower, ‘fake news,’ closed-door meetings, a bureaucratic cover-up, the refusal to work together for …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PM

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